Linda Press Wulf (www.lindapresswulf.com) grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and read vociferously throughout her childhood. Her mother encouraged her love of old-fashioned children’s books by Gene Stratton Porter, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ethel Turner, and the two L.M.s – L. M. Montgomery and L.M. Alcott; her father showed her how to polish both writing and speechmaking; her brother influenced her to love history; and her sister told her that she was too young to get the Inner Meaning of the adult books she was reading.